Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-15
CONNUBIALlTlES.

Bayard Taylor's daughter is reported to be
engaged to a young physician of the Univer-
sity Of Halle
Fifty-one marriages were announced in
one day recently in a Philadelphia paper.
Those Quaker maidenS are as prettly
modest and demure as your Aunt Tabitha's
cat, but they seem to get there" just the
same.
A Missouri girl waved her hand at a
stranger, and in three days they were mar
ried. Two days later the young lady waved
a tlatlr0n at her husband, and the next even
ing he came home waving, divorce. What
are the wild waves saying?
A territorial editor says in his paper:
Yesterday we were agai n married. 1t
will be remembered that both of our
former wives eloped with the foreman of the
Office To avoid any future Inconvenience
of the kind we have this time married lady
who is herself compositor, aud she will set
the type while we hustle for the ducks who
still owe on subscriptions. dakota Bell.
A young eastern farmer was engaged to be
married to a neighbours handsome daughter,
procured a license on the day set for the cere-
mony and proceeded to the residence of his
atfianced. On arriving he learned to his
astonishment that his intended had been
married a few months before to an old sweet
heart. The happy groom had arrived from
the west that day, gone at once to tho lady's
residence, gained her consent, procured a
license and married her. all within the brief
space of three hours. An eastern man stands
no chance at all alongside of an energetic
westerner.
Some women are never contented. One of
this Kind has gone before a magistrate in
England aud asked for divorce on the
ggound that in forty years OF her married
lie her husband had bitten her every day,
$1,000 of those love nips.. A young woman
of Detroit has refused thirty distinct offers,
and prefers rs yet the cold companionship
of her quarter OF million Of dollars. In
nj ,Ip,,I hINN ,iy,r Nf to-, h>
just buried her sixth husband, and scores of
eager suitors are yet willing to be immo-
lated on the altar of her beauty. That while
there is life there is hope has been demon
strated by a Massachusetts maiden of
seventy-two who got married last week, and
by Chicago husband who got his seventh
divorce while in search of the model wife.
Altogether, the matrimonial market Is lively
and strong,
Rukmibhar. the native Indian lady, whose
wrongs aroused a general feeling Of sym.
pathy in England and India, was married,
according to Hindoo usage, at the age OF
eleven to youth some years her senior. She
remained at her parents house, was carefully
educated and grew up, according to all ac-
counts, into refined and highly educated
lady. Some eighteen months ago she pub
lished in ",'rhe Times of India" under the
nom de plume of "A HindoO Lady" series
| of forcible and striking letters on the
| miseres cntailed on her sex in India by the
barbarOus customs OF infant marriage and
| enforced widOwhood. Last year her hus.
| band tried to get her to live with him, and
| O her refusing he instituted suit for the
restitution Of conjugal rights in the Bombay
high court The case was tried, and it hav-
| Ing been proved that the husband was too
poor to support her, was utterly ignorant and
| uneducated--in fact, mere cOOlie, the judge
| expressed the opinion that 1t would be bar
J barous, cruel and revolving thing to compel
| her. 10 live with such man. He fur
| ther held that such a suit could not lie
| under llindoo law and dismissed il. The
husband appealed, and the chief justice and
| a Judge ruled that the first Judge was wrong
| In law ana ssnt tho case back to the lower
| courts 10 he tried on its merits. On this this
! II was urged as before that the woman had
! never consented to the marriage, and had
! never regarded the man as her husband; that
| he was poor, ignorant and unhealthy: and
! that II ordered to return TO him she should
| be forced to disCbey and take the cOnse-
| quences. She was ordered to join her hus.
| band within month or undergo six months
| Imprisonment. Tho case has excited much
| sympathy among the Anglo-lndian com.
| munity. The English newspapers are pub
| fishing letters aud articles on the subject
! and steps are being taken in Bombay to raise
! fund In her behalf. Among the native
| community, however, hardly single voice.
/ except that OF Mr. Malavari, Parsee gentle
man, has been raised IN Ler favor, and the
! sO-called reiormers who agitate loudly fol
| representative institutions etc, say no word
| for the alteration OF the cruel Jaw which the
Bombay court has been reluctantly compelled
/ 10 enforce,